User:Óðinn/DYK
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- ...that the redside dace (pictured) is the only species of minnow routinely to feed on flying insects by leaping from water?
- ...that Tews Fall, located within the Spencer Gorge / Webster's Falls Conservation Area, is the tallest of 96 waterfalls found in Hamilton, Ontario?
- ...that Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
- ...that the 2002 surge of the Kolka Glacier resulted in deaths of at least 125 people?
- ...that in February 1944, the retreating forces of Nazi Germany razed the Gdov Kremlin almost entirely with only its walls remaining?
- ...that Puslinch Lake is the largest kettle lake in North America?
- ...that the Norwegian black / death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev, Grieg, Rachmaninov, and Satie?
- ... that Devil's Den gully, located within the Heber Down Conservation Area, was so named because the local inhabitants believed that the Devil was holding court there?

